Ancient Symbols

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Short description: Unicode character block
Ancient Symbols
RangeU+10190..U+101CF
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsGreek (1 char.)
Common (12 char.)
Symbol setsRoman weights and currency
Assigned13 code points
Unused51 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.112 (+12)
7.013 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Ancient Symbols is a Unicode block containing Roman characters for currency, weights, and measures.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ancient Symbols block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.1 U+10190..1019A 11 L2/06-173 Perry, David J. (2006-05-05), Proposal to Add Ancient Roman Weights and Monetary Signs to UCS 
L2/06-234 Perry, David J. (2006-07-30), Proposal to Add Ancient Roman Weights and Monetary Signs to UCS 
U+1019B 1 L2/06-269 N3218 Perry, David J. (2006-08-01), Proposal to Add Additional Ancient Roman Characters to UCS 
7.0 U+101A0 1 L2/12-034 N4194 Sosin, Joshua; Heilporn, Paul; Hoogendijk, Cisca; Mastronarde, Donald; Hickey, Todd; Anderson, Deborah (2012-01-23), Proposal for three Greek papyrological characters 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

  • Greek alphabet in Unicode

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2016-07-09. 
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2016-07-09. 




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